Arun Puranik | arun.puranik@gmail.com One still thinks of the Parsi riots that happened roughly 75 years ago while discussing Imperial Cinema. The first Bombay Talkies film, "Jawani ki Hawa", by Himanshu Roy, was released on September 16th, 1935, at Imperial. Devika Rani, the movie's main character, is a pretty young woman who doesn't want to...
“Insaan kisise duniya mein ek baar mohabbat karta hai...is dard ko lekar jeeta hai, is dard ko lekar marta hai.” Lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni, Music by Naushad & Singer Lata Mangeshkar. Pain is an essential ingredient of love; it adds to the taste! The charm of love is that it happens; we fall in love and...
Shankar Iyer | burmanfan@gmail.com The trailblazer for the community of musicians, Cawas Lord was the first-ever musician of the Hindi Music Industry, you heard it right! Born in 1911 to an affluent Parsi family in Pune, Cawas was brave enough to follow his heart and that made him take the decision of moving to Mumbai...
